¹⁷ You will be hated by all because of my name.^(A)

¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²² “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you^[a] on account of the Son of Man.^(A)

¹⁰ Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.^(A)

²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.^(A)

³ I also know that you are enduring and bearing up for the sake of my name and that you have not grown weary.^(A)

²⁹ For he has graciously granted you the privilege not only of believing in Christ but of suffering for him as well,^(A)

¹¹ For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh.

¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.^(A)

¹³ and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.^(A)